IHIP News - Trump Spiraling As More Top Aides Call Quit ON Him, It's All Over For Him

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

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It's Friday. Let's serve up some Welch's lemonade. I mean, let's just do it. It's going to be cold. It's going to be hot. It's going to be delicious and juicy. And let's start off with Natalie Harp, whom I'm referring to as the bunny boiler. The bunny boiler, remember fatal attraction when Glenn Close failed the bunny. Natalie's the bunny boiler. America's bunny boiler. So the bunny boiler is testing Melania's willingness to put up with Trump. Pop this up. Lanya Trump is locked in a secret power struggle with her husband's 35-year-old assistant who has become seemingly inseparable from him. What do you think? Do you think there's a power struggle or do you think Melania is like, you take him? Okay, first of all, I think Melania cares and doesn't care. And I think you know where I'm going with this. I think she cares reputationalally, what it makes her look like. Look, I am, you can do your thing.

I am first lady. You do a better Melania than I do. I am first lady, but she doesn't, so she probably feels like, hey, put some respect on her title and her name. However, whatever Donald Trump is doing with whatever, whether it's platonic, whether it's not, in my opinion, she doesn't give a shit. Because by all indications, if you look at some of the reporting, especially if you look at, what's his name who does the thing for the Daily Beast? What's his name again? Why can't I think of his name? Oh, Michael Wolf. Michael Wolf. Thank you. If you think, if you, if you think, if you, if you, if you, Look at what Michael Wolf says.

Michael Wolf doesn't believe that she's lived there or perhaps is not set foot. I'm not slept there. I shouldn't say set foot because we've seen her there. In the White House in the second administration. So look, that's his reporting. I don't know. But I think that she doesn't give a crap whether he's is platonic or not platonic or whatever relationship that he has.

She just doesn't want to getting out there and embarrassing her. Am I wrong? I think that's probably about correct. I'm loving the stage five meltdown from. MAGA defending the bunny boiler. All John also said was he wants to travel with Natalie. And they, I mean, these MAGA men are so hysterical. They are so periomenopausal.

They are so PMS. All of the stereotypes they project onto women, white liberal women, they are that times infinity. And one of these is Ms. Pris Jennings. And Ms. Pris Jennings, who I think should be fired from CNN, I think it's a miscarriage of justice. Who are you talking about? Oh, Miss Jennings? Ms. Jennings, if you're nasty.

What are we going to say? We're going to call him Stephen Jennings or something? Yeah, go ahead. Seth Jennings. So Steve Jennings is having a melt. Miss Steve Jennings is having a meltdown over all of this. And now all of a sudden is a champion for women, despite, despite defending and fluffing for the man who is an adjudicated rapist, who has been accused of sexually assaulting women and

children. and treats women like shit. So Abby Phillips confronted him about this last night on the show. Let's play the clip. The worst reporter. No one to see. CNN has no ratings because of people like you. You know, she's a young woman.

I don't think I've ever seen you smile. I've known you for 10 years. I don't think I've ever seen a smile. Well, I'm asking you about survivors. This is horrible. This is horrible. Quiet, quiet. Quiet.

Quiet, piggy. I mean, Scott. Dan's question was pretty straightforward. If you're going to be outraged over traveling on a plane with Natalie, are you going to be outraged over all those things? I do not believe in demeaning women in any way, number one, number two. So did not. Okay, Jen, I can't take, I just can't watch anymore.

Can I just say my piece here? First of all, I just want to make sure that my gin is okay. So adjudicated in a civil court for sexually abusing a woman which the judge said was akin to rape in a Washington Post interview. Okay, I just want to make sure that. Thank you. So Scott Jennings, I don't know who that person is because when I worked at CNN, he was not on display. So what that shows me is that he's not to be taken seriously. this conversation about women.

Donald Trump, as we said, the whole thing about being that, and then other women have accused him, and we know what happened with, again, E. Jean Carroll. He's still trying to get out of it. He doesn't want to pay her. He doesn't want to pay the defamation and all of those things. We hear what he says about women all the time. And for them to get their panties all in a wad

about something that John Assoff said, which did not seem out of character or out of the ordinary or offensive to me when it is the truth. When many people see that, not many people see it as a truth. The truth is the truth is the truth. And so miss me on this bullshit about not disparaging women or looking out for women. Why don't you look out for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, who was Donald Trump's best buddy and pal for years, if not decades?

Why don't you speak out about that? And then get all of those files out there so that the American people can see what's real and what's not. Katie Fang is working on it, and I hope that she succeeds. But I don't think any of these people are to be taken seriously. I don't think they should be sitting around desks,

taking someone like Scott Jennings seriously. Scott Jennings is obviously auditioning to be the White House Press Secretary and has been doing it for years. And maybe this is his opportunity. I believe that Scott Jennings, the Scott Jennings that I knew,

I think that he knows better. But I think that he has let his ambition to be something in the Republican Party or for fame outweigh his sense of decency and morality and being a serious, intelligent person. So I would not even sit around and pretend that this is normal and argue with Scott Jennings about some bullshit that he is saying because he's not a serious person. That's all. That delicious. I'm through. I completely agree with you. And I think I'm noticing once somebody capitulates to Trump, they become worse of a person,

whether somebody that works for Donald Trump or your next door neighbor. Something about capitulating to this evil just it breaks people more and more and more. And you see that all across the United States. But there is a mass exodus taking place in the White House right now. Pop this up. Number four, Kylie. James Brade, the top White House aide in charge of liaising with Congress is leaving the administration according to a person with knowledge of

the transitions. And so another person says here, shockwaves is another top aide announces exit from Trump admin, Emily Underwood, top deputy to deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller. So there are people who are positioning right now before these midterms to leave right now. I don't know if I'm letting myself be hopeful, but do they know like, okay, this is going to be a massive blow? tsunami, this thing is cooked. I'm going to GTFO right now. What's your take on that? What are you reading into those tea leaves? Yeah, on my show, I use this. I have this sort of Brady bunch billboard, right, with all the people up there who have left. I think that they realize that now is a time to get out if they want to make some money because after the November

midterm elections, it is, you know, basically lame duck and the money opportunity start to dry up. And I believe the same thing goes, the same thing is true for Caroline Leavitt. I just don't believe, and again, in my opinion, I don't see how someone who has such a huge position in government, who has the biggest microphone in the world is going to want to leave to spend time with her family. If you want to spend time with her family, take more days off. Let other people fill in for you. So I think that she sees opportunity beyond this. And maybe she's being advised.

she realizes like, hey, I got this. She was young. She got it just because she, you know, when they say she has a smart mouth. That doesn't mean you're smart because you have a smart mouth, right? That's right. And you can speak fast and you speak quickly like Candace Owens and a lot of people. And they just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk,

like J.D. Vance, they talk and they say things like, what are they actually saying? And everyone says, oh my God, I think she's so talented. She's so brilliant. It's not that hard to do what she does. And I'm going to do it for you, Jen. I don't mean this when I say, how dare you talk about the first lady like that?

You are a biased reporter, Jen Welch, and it shows me that you're biased because you have the nerves to talk about this woman who is a great woman and has done nothing but great things for the people of the United States and she takes time out of her. That's not hard to do. Exactly. But when you have to operate under facts and reality, that's very difficult. So if she were able to, if they were, if the press was able to hold her to account without them because every time they resort to what? insults. We saw it in that clip with Caitlin Collins. It was a former colleague of Vine. Caitlin is a very established reporter, a solid White House correspondent. And when he can't answer the question, he wants to insult her, do you smile? Basically, he's saying, you'd be prettier if you smiled. You know, that's what women do. And so, look, yes, they are trying to get money. Right now, the opportunity they see, and the quicker, the closer we get, I should say, to the midterms and to 2028, those financial and career opportunities start to dry up with each day.

That's what's happening. I agree with you. I always say, I think a lot of what motivates those on the right is financial Darwinism. This whole techerc calls and jump off the Trump train. It's like, okay, I need to survive this. Okay, let's move on to covering what you and I are really shining a light on, which is the majority of child sex abusers are white, middle-aged, conservative men. And Ron DeSantis has an ally that was arrested on child abuse charges. Pop this up.

Mike Caruso, one of DeSantis's closest allies in the state legislature, who he appointed as Palm Beach County's clerk of courts. And comptroller last year has been arrested on child sex abuse charges. Okay. So this is somebody in DeSantis's orbit who obviously is a child as a pedophile. And then also I want to point out in DeSantis's orbit was a gal named Bridget. And Bridget formed the moms of Liberty in Florida. And Bridget and her husband also engaged. And she was like on the school board.

And Bridget and her husband also engaged in. a monasetois. And the third member that Bridget and her husband invited is claimed that Bridget's husband sexually didn't honor consent in the monasetois. So Ron DeSantis is surrounded by a lot of sexual deviance here all over the place while he lectures us about who we can love, what kind of marriages we can have. And he famously paints over the sidewalk, out there's outside of the Pulse nightclub. And I think Ronda Santis needs to take a look at how many sexual degenerates he has surrounding him in Florida.

And also not only him in Florida, but around the person who's in the White House and the person who's in the White House who's around a sexual degenerate and the woman who helped to facilitate the sexual degeneracy. But yes, it's filled with that, Jen. All you have to do is go to Reichwin watch, right? And it gives you snippets. And then you research your own thing and you look it up. And you say, oh, yeah, that's right.

That person's Maga. That person's a pastor. That person is evangelical. That person is this. That person is that. Yeah, they need to clean up their own house. And they overlook every single, at every single turn, what MAGA is doing, what members of their own party are doing. The hypocrisy around Donald Trump and how much money he's making off of the presidency.

And they have no idea about it. But, oh my gosh, Hunter Biden. and Burisma, what is going on? We Hunter Biden can't have a couple of million dollar salary, but Trump is okay for him to make billions of dollars off of the presidency. If they do the same thing, it is complete hypocrisy. And I'm glad you mentioned that.

Let me just state for the people. And this is, and I'd like to point it out, look, these are, this has been investigated, these are facts by law enforcement, but it takes one of your own sometimes to hold up a mirror for you, And someone who is a Christian, I would deem him probably to be conservative, and that's Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow stated that most online child sexual abuse material perpetrators are white middle-aged men,

many with college degrees who often hold jobs working closely with children. He shares these findings through his anti-trafficking advocacy with the Tim Tebow Foundation. He said, conservative, middle-aged white men, and I will add, I don't want to just directly to him, but what the stats show, many of them Christian. But you will never see an investigation. But you won't see an investigation on that, but the migrants. Oh, my gosh, they're taking over America. You'll never see an investigation on that. Oh, but the blacks and the DEI.

You'll never see investigation on that. Oh, but it's trans people. I haven't seen a trans person in the bathroom. One story of them doing something to a kid. But I see a lot of white dudes of the middle age Christian conservative MAGA doing weird shit or accused of doing weird shit to kids. That's all I'm saying. Exactly.

Even the Speaker of the House, Moses Mike Grindr Johnson, his mentor, that's his official name on this channel. His mentor was a man who was trying to start a conservative law school, a religious, law school, whatever the fuck that is, right? And in the throes of he and little Moses, Mike, trying to put this law school together, he is credibly accused of molesting little boys. And my mother always said growing up, the louder, the most overt the Christian, the bigger the secrets, the bigger the degeneracy. And that's always proven to be true. Let's take it, let's shift gears here. And let's take a gander at Sean Duffy's taxpayer-funded reality TV show.

Play the clip. I went to an extremely conservative school in high school. And I'm part of a extremely conservative family. And that if I go to a liberal setting, that's a way more rounded education than if I go to a conservative high school and then go to a conservative college. That's just being kind of one-sided anyways. But they're so good at it, you'll see young people go to a conservative school. with a conservative family, and they get perverted and contorted.

Can I just say, is this her house or are there in an Airbnb somewhere? Do you know? I have no idea. I have no idea. I couldn't get past the fire extinguisher connected to the wall, like it was a piece of art. I couldn't, after I saw the fire extinguisher, I was like, I was like, I tuned out.

I'm like, why is this, are they expecting like a, like, I mean, in my home, it's under the sink right next to the stove. If I need to grab it, I can grab it quickly. Like, do I need it? I don't know. Maybe it's a piece of, maybe it could be an art piece. I don't know. This is the problem with the deafies not having gay people in their lifestyle right there.

That we know about that's straight that we know about allegedly. That's straight on straight crime right there. When you see. They hired a straight decorator. Yeah. Maybe we should, maybe we should inform the. Duffy family, and like, I'm not going to speak for that young lady because she's a young lady, but I'll just talk about since her dad is an adult.

Maybe we need to inform him about the story that we just talked about before, about the creeps in the Republican Party and who's actually trying to, in real life, trying to do something with young people or vulnerable people, rather than saying that, you know, by going to some school or something that she's going to be radicalized or they're going to try to do, it's ridiculous. When I think many times when people go to liberal, meaning liberal arts, not like liberal universe, like liberal conservative, when they go to liberal arts universities or universities of schools that are more open and that don't have an agenda about Christianity and all those things. And I know I went to Catholic school for a long time until I went to high school. When people get out of that system, their minds, they start to have critical thinking. They're not being immersed in these things every single day. I'm so glad I love my little private Catholic, you know, elementary to eighth grade. And then when I got to high school, the whole thing opened up.

And then when I got to college, it opened up even more. And I started at, began to have critical thinking rather than what my parents said was right. Just like your son, you can teach your son all you want, but don't you want him to develop his own sense of the world and what he thinks is right and what he thinks is wrong? You can advise him on that, but I wouldn't be trying to restrict my kid into the boundaries that I have set for myself or what I think their boundaries should be. That's part of becoming an adult, Sean Duffy. Let this young lady do whatever she feels. You can be there to guide her and support her, but don't try to push her in a certain direction because you want her to do something religiously or politically or whatever it is. And let's play the tape through that if she went to Liberty University, okay?

That's where Natalie Harp went, the Bunny Boiler, went to Liberty University. That didn't fare very well. And then we also know that the president of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, Jr., hired a pullboy to bang his wife while he masturbated watching the pool boy in the corner. But he won't allow the people at Liberty University to hold hands. And so the problem that Sean Duffy is having is he knows the antidote for all of his problems is critical thinking. And he doesn't want his child realizing that he's fed her, a judge stream of bullshit her whole life. So, I mean, my thing is send your kids to Liberty University then.

Send your kids there. There's a lot of people that want to go to Harvard that want to critically think. One of them, for sure, is not Nancy Mace. Nancy Mace is going through some things. And here is a clip of her defending her tattoos. And I want to get your take on this. And I want to bring in my producer Kylie for her to give us her take on all this. Let's play the clip first.

You don't have to like my ink. You don't even have to like me. Quite frankly, I don't care if you do. But if visible arms send your timeline into crisis mode, you aren't defending democracy. You're losing a fist fight with someone else's elbows, namely mine right here. And imagine if the media were as obsessed with the jihad capital as they are with my biceps. Maybe we'd stop calling them the fake news. Hold on a second.

Hang on, hang on, hang on. Let me bring her back. I need to give her some water. She's so thirsty. Oh, she is. She's so thirsty. Like, what is she talking about? She's the one that chose to show off her arms and whatever tattoos.

Nobody, I'm going to say it the way that they say it down south and you know. Ain't nobody asked her for that. Ain't nobody asked her to do that. And if you're going to put that shit out there, then you should be, you should be, you know, prepared for the shit storm that comes when people criticize it if you're going to put it out there people are going to talk about it the internet do what it do and the internet is doing what it's doing around her and look as far as her hypocrisy i can't get past it for the her shit about tattoos okay it gets i don't have a drink of water on that you dehydrated queen i'm just

okay listen it gets worse Kylie come on and show don't what you lasered in on the passage on her arm. Okay. So people have honed in on one of her tattoos specifically. And Evan Love War says being one of the most anti-LGBQ people on Earth and getting a tattoo of a book about being gay. So this tattoo she has is from a famously gay book. I think that's pretty specific to get without having any idea what it's from. It's not like a symbol.

And I got to say when I saw these photos, it was giving Jillian Michaels. It was giving a little bit more. Oh my gosh. You know? Yes. Is she gay? Put up the photos. Are we getting a gay door ping?

I didn't want to say that. But I always wonder like, okay, let me say this. Usually like sometimes when people are troubled, there's something behind their trouble, right? That's what's going on. And a lot of times it's they're not being true or real to themselves. And I have witnessed Nancy Mace being a troubled person in real time. I'm just to be honest. I saw her have a meltdown in front of one of the Congressional Senate office buildings.

The congressional office buildings. And I didn't put it on camera. I talked about it, but she said, you know, don't put it on camera. So her wishes, I didn't put it on camera, but I told people about it. Because I don't think you should, you know, if it's your worst moment and she's like, whatever. However, I was like, I kind of got a little bit of a, hmm, maybe she likes girls' vibes and she can't deal with it. It's like a Lindsey Graham thing. She can't come out.

I'm sorry, Kylie. Go ahead. I was going to see if we go off of like the Welch's lemonade algorithm of this, it's she's anti-LGBQ. There might be something underneath that we should pay attention to. She gets a gay tattoo. So I asked Kylie before we were putting this episode together. So Kylie, you're gay.

Does she look a little gay in these photos? And, Kylie, it was like 100%. That's what we're all saying. So anyway, thanks, Kylie, for your heart hitting. She's our lesbian correspondent for Welch's Lemonade. We have a lesbian correspondent. I love the Jillian Michaels comparison, too. Right.

Right. Okay. Last question, Dawn. The NAACP is joining the Nolan Wells legal team. You have been at the forefront in the United States on covering this story. give the Welch's Lemonade audience for the people that you're on my channel this week. Give us an update on what's going on with this because you've been incredible in covering this. Thank you for saying that and I really appreciate it.

And some people, I'm sure they want me to cover something else. And we do like that we do things like we're doing now. But I always put this story in the show and usually at the forefront of the show because we find that, and I think you will agree with me, when it is a missing white woman or a mysterious death of a white woman or white, the news goes crazy. So I want to make sure that there is proportionality and equity in that coverage. And I think that's part of what I should be doing as a journalist and especially as a journalist and as a man of color in America. The NAACP is joining the legal team that is fighting for justice for the Nolan Wells family and just trying to get answers

for what happened to him. Not that they're accusing anyone, but they just want answers. And they believe, as many do, that the investigators from the start did not take this seriously by starting out saying, we're not looking at file play. Again, a paraphrase here, we're looking at this as accidental. Just days after it happened. And people were wondering, like, what do you mean? Are you not taking seriously? What do you mean you're looking at it this way? Shouldn't you just be looking at it objectively? Like, we don't know what happened. It could be file play. It could not be foul play. But for him to get out there in front of very early on in the investigation and say that was troubling to a lot of people. The family, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, the attorneys and

representatives have called on the federal government to get involved in the investigation and to lend the resources of the federal government to finding out what's going on. To my knowledge, as we are taping this, they have not heard back. That just happened last week and this week. To my knowledge, they have not heard back from the federal government. And quite frankly, I have a bit of consternation considering who's leading our Justice Department, which includes the FBI. as well. You've got Todd Blanche and then you have Cash Patel. And so I would love for the resources of the federal government to be used, but you don't know what's going to happen in an investigation. And I don't know if you can trust an investigation when they are involved. So that is what's

happening. My concern, and I'll end on this, Jen is that people are going to believe what they believe already once we find out the information. If it's found to be an accident, people are going going to say it's not an accident. They covered something up. They hid something. if it is found out not to be an accident, they're gonna say, oh, they were forced into doing this because of the outcry from the family and black leaders. And you see the kids, I don't know if you've seen these interviews, the young man, I shouldn't call them kids,

the young men who was with Nolan on the last day of his life, they are blank, not, I shouldn't say they. One of them is blaming the mother for the treatment that they have gotten on social media and the response to it because she posted a picture of her son wondering, I want to know what happened. This is what he was wearing. these are the folks he was with when he was at Horn Island.

It's just not a good look. I don't understand why their attorneys or their advisors are allowing them to go on on television or on streaming platforms and give interviews, the kids and the lawyers themselves. It's just a bad look. You're not going to win with a grieving mother. And I think that they're not helping themselves. So that's where we are now. They've agreed to a joint investigation or a joint search of the cell phone for information

and there are things now on a calendar. Once they do that and figure things out, they're going to release the information, I believe, and it's going to go to a grand jury. I don't know if they're going to release the information. But the DA just said, put out a response just the other day saying, I can't say this, I can't say that, just because things aren't true, whatever. It seemed very defensive to people who are listening.

And it also seems like she was trying to prepare people for some news that they may not be ready for or wanted to hear. That's where we are. Do we know what the cause of death is? Not yet. It still said the means and the cause still undetermined. As far as we know, I'm not sure what the exact autopsy says. That information has not been released. The toxicology report has not been released, but on the independent side still.

inconclusive. It's fascinating stuff. And Don, just thank you so much for your advocacy for that family and for justice and for centering black people when they are victims of crime, which doesn't fit the narrative that mainstream media wants to show us that black people, they want to promote black people or the crime doers. And black people, right, go ahead. Thank you. Look, you're right. Look, I understand what you're saying, but I'm an advocacy for truth and information and for him to get justice, right? And then it just happens to be that I think the family deserves it.

And I believe it is a bad look. And no one should be treating this mother as if she's on trial because she's not. She was not on Horn Island. She just wants answers for her son's death. That's it. Of course. All right, Dawn. Have a great weekend.

Welchers lemonade was so fun. Let's keep our, let's put Nancy Mace on our watch. on our watch list. Me too. I'll take a sip for her too. I'm parched just watching her. Yeah. Oh, wait a minute.

Let's do it. You ready? Together. You ready? Watch a lemonade. Let's go, baby. Mm. Mm.

Yeah. All right, darling. We love you. Love you too. Bye. Bye.